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September 30- October 2, 2009. “Gathering the Threads: Weaving the Early Medieval World,” Australian Early Medieval Association Sixth Annual Conference at the Caulfield Campus of Monash University, Victoria. From the Middle East to the North Atlantic, cultural differences were woven into the new social fabric of the early medieval world. Peoples, languages, religions, traditions and technologies were the threads woven into the period's complex tapestry. Papers on any other aspect of early medieval research or scholarship will also be accepted. A title and a 250 word abstract for papers of twenty minutes in length should be submitted to the conference convener by June 30, 2009. Please include affiliation and contact details with your abstract. Presenters will be invited to publish their papers in the refereed Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association. Please send paper proposals to: Natasha Amendola, School of Historical Studies, Building 11, Clayton Campus, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
Email: natasha.amendola@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit the website at http://home.vicnet.net.au/~medieval/conference2009/
September 7-10, 2008. "CHYMIA: Science and Nature in Early Europe (1450–1750)," an International Conference held at El Escorial, in Madrid. At San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Philip II planned a monument that would perpetuate his glory for centuries. A church for God. A monastery for the Jeronymite order. A palace for the king. A tomb for the Royal Spanish dynasty. A temple for science. It is this last aspect that, unfortunately, has received the least historical attention over the years. This temple of science hosted during the final decades of the sixteenth century some of the most advanced chemical practitioners in Early Modern Europe in its pharmacy and distillation laboratory. The monastery/palace of El Escorial will serve as a backdrop and co-host of this international conference on science and nature in Early Modern Europe. The conference seeks to bring together Spanish and international scholars of science to discuss several topics, including the role of Alchemy from recent historical perspectives. (http://www.revistaazogue.com/conference/presentation.htm). Contact: Miguel López Pérez, Organizing Committee (baeyens@revistaazogue.com).
Ongoing. Donald J. Kagay is currently soliciting further essays for the collection, New Perspectives on the Hundred Years War (volume 1 has appeared, and there may be plans for a third volume). Their previous collection, Medieval Warfare around the Mediterranean, is forthcoming from Boydell and Brewer. The prospective time-frame to publication of new collection is one to two years. For further information, contact the editors at villalonlja@worldnet.att.net.
October 15-17, 2009. “Knowing and Unknowing: the 35 Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. We welcome papers on all aspects of the Middle Ages, but we particularly encourage papers that consider the role of knowledge. Please submit electronically by July 1, 2009, to: https://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/gShQhq/SEMAabstract.
October 23-24, 2009. “Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Texas Medieval Association,” The University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Papers are welcomed on all aspects of medieval history and culture, including medieval art, languages, literature, medievalism, music. Early submissions are greatly welcomed, but send in all session proposals and paper abstracts (150-300 words) no later than September 1, 2009, to L. J. Andrew Villalon or to Don Kagay.
 April 9-10, 2010. 37th Sewanee Medieval Colloquium on the theme of Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages.
Plenary speakers: David Gitlitz and Linda Davidson
We invite 20-minute papers from all disciplines on any aspect of medieval pilgrimage. We also welcome proposals for 3-paper sessions on particular topics related the theme. Please submit an abstract (approx. 250 words) and brief c.v., electronically if possible, no later than October 1, 2009. If you wish to propose a session, please submit abstracts and vitae for all participants in the session. Commentary is traditionally provided for each paper presented; completed papers, including notes, will be due no later than March 10, 2010. The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Prize will be awarded for the best paper by a graduate student or recent PhD recipient (degree awarded since July 2007). For further information on the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, see http://www.sewanee.edu/Medieval/main.html. Please address submissions and inquiries to Stephen B. Raulston.
March 11-13, 2010. “Seventeenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies,” New College of Florida, in Sarasota, Florida. One-page abstracts are invited of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work and planned sessions are welcome. The deadline for abstracts is September 15, 2009. Send inquiries and abstracts (no attachments please) to: Nova Myhill.
April 15-17, 2010. “Art in the Public Sphere, Public Spheres in Art. Middle Ages and Renaissance,” Association of Art Historians Annual Conference University of Glasgow.
Art has helped to define spaces for communication in the public sphere since the Middle Ages, and its own basic concepts have been shaped by these processes. Correspondingly, genres and themes, methods and tasks have had constantly to be adapted to changing habits of communication in the political communities of European cities. Our aim is to address art in the public sphere from ca. 1200 to ca. 1600 with a focus on visual discourse and aesthetic experience. We are interested in papers that address the impact of political discourse on the community's self-fashioning; stylistic norms and social distinction through art; the creation and negotiation of spaces for art and for visual communication; as well as visual communication shaped and restricted by public regulation. We are also interested in the spatial and intellectual frameworks in which works of art were beheld, discussed, and made accessible to different audiences. Last but not least, we are interested in how these issues are visually reflected or subverted in the works themselves. We especially invite contributions that go beyond the established text-based readings of political iconography. If you would like to submit a paper, please send a 250 word abstract to the two session convenors (e-mail addresses as below) before November 9, 2009. Your name and your institutional affiliation with full contact details should also be included in the abstract. Contributions will be limited to 25 minutes in length. Wolfgang Brückle, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park,
UK Colchester CO4 3SQ and Jules Lubbock, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, UK Colchester CO4 3SQ.
April 15-17, 2010. “Images of Corporal Mortification and Corruption, Martyrdom and Mercy: 1250-1550,” Association of Art Historians Annual Conference University of Glasgow. The psychological implications of the new religiosity with which the devotional image was in accord are just as complex as the social conditions from which the religious individual developed his self-awareness. What took place in the thirteenth century was one of the most comprehensive transformations European society ever underwent. While the symptoms were often only visible in images at a later date, the impulses to modify images reach back to the thirteenth century." Hans Belting (trans. M. Bartusis and R. Meyer), The Image and Its Public in the Middle Ages: Form and Function of Early Paintings of the Passion (New Rochelle, New York: 1990), p. 7. This session will explore images which illustrate the mortification of the flesh, bodily corruption, disfigurement, disease, decay, physical degradation and death. Such images have been used to convey messages of strength, the triumph of faith over fear and pain, the incorruptibility of the spirit, salvation, celebration and optimism. Images of suffering are often coupled with those of compassion and protection. Issues surrounding the role of gender within images of martyrdom and mercy will be investigated. Papers are invited which engage with related imagery (e.g. depictions of justice, punishment, vengeance, restraint and clemency) from both religious and secular contexts and which explore the relationship between text and image. We encourage submissions illustrating examples from a wide range of media (panel and wall painting, manuscript illumination, sculpture, architectural structures and contexts, decorated household, religious and civic objects and
textiles) and originating from a variety of geographical locations. Abstracts of 250 words (max.) are invited November 10, 2009 for the session. The abstract should also include your name, the title of your paper, your academic affiliation and full contact details. Papers will be a maximum of 30 minutes in length. Emily Jane Anderson (University of Glasgow) Emily Jane Anderson (University of Glasgow) and Robert Gibbs (University of Glasgow).
July 12-15, 2010. “Travel and Exploration. International Medieval Congress,” University of Leeds, Leeds, England. Sessions and papers on any topic or theme in the European Middle Ages are welcome, but especially on travel and exploration, to commemorate the 550th anniversary, in 2010, of the death of Prince Henry ‘the Navigator' of Portugal. Full description of theme and additional information at here. Proposals should be submitted electronically; deadline is August 31, 2009 for paper proposals, and September 30, 2009 for session proposals.
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